Squeeze It

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See Squeeze for formats with similar names.

"Squeeze", an unrelated program by Sven Ritter, had a drag-and-drop feature that used the label "Squeeze It". See SQX.

Squeeze It, sometimes shortened to SQZ, is an early-1990s archival/compression program for DOS, written by Jonas I. Hammarberg^[2]. It creates files with the extension ".sqz" (".SQZ" with DOS naming conventions). It was a minor contender in the "archiver wars"^[3] of the 1980s and 1990s.

Identification

Squeeze It archives start with ASCII HLSQZ.^[4]

Specifications

• The SQZ File Format, from FileFormat.info and Corion.net

Software

• Squeeze It (DOS binaries)
  • v1.08.1 (1992-08-22)
  • v1.08.2 (1992-09-11)
  • v1.08.3 (1993-01-24) (executable that, when run, extracts from itself the actual Squeeze It utility, as well as documentation and a sample file)
  • v1.08.3 - In a ZIP file
  • v1.08.4α (1993-05-19?)

References

1. ↑ Earliest version listed in http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/sqz1083e.exe → WHATSNEW.DOC
2. ↑ http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/sqz1083e.exe → SQZ.DOC
3. ↑ Name from http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/2all210.zip → 2ALL.DOC
4. ↑ http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/sqz1083e.exe → TECH.ENG